Mindfulness isn't just meditation, it's about staying present, aware, and calm even during everyday tasks. For some, it's mindful walking. For others, it might be eating slowly, breathing deeply, or simply noticing what's around them without judgment.

Practicing mindfulness regularly can reduce stress, ease anxiety, and improve your overall emotional wellbeing. But with so much noise and distraction in life, it isn’t always easy.

So how do YOU make mindfulness a part of your daily routine?

While my OCD makes meditation outright dangerous for me, and also having had so much DBT over the past few years and found it really useless, I now know prayer to be my to be my tine of meditation.

I struggle with mindfulness, but do catch myself feeling grounded and at peace just sitting beneath a majestic old maple tree among the clover, listening intently at the morning's delightful bird songs...

I must try better to call up.upon such moments in my frequent bouts of extreme anxiety and outright terror and intrusive thoughts and despondency...but, admittedly...I do not try hard enough...